Feature Story Reflection
Our assignment for this project was to get in groups and interview someone outside of class and do a feature story on them. Our first step was to figure out who we wanted to interview and what story we wanted to tell about them. After we chose a recently self published author and sophomore at ONW, LyLena Estabine, we wrote our interview questions for her. We tried to write questions that would get her thinking and prompt long and detailed responses. At the same time, we also wrote out our shot list so we'd know ahead of time how to set up the camera. When the time came to interview her, we chose to film in the ecomm side room between graphic design and animation so we could have a place to set her book next to her and so we could have a good background. The filming went very smoothly and only took one class period to complete.
Once it was all filmed, we were able to move onto editing. LyLena was a very animated speaker , and because of this we were able to get a lot of good footage, though this also made it more challenging since the interview was supposed to be around 1 minute and 30 seconds. Another issue, was that we had hardly any b-roll so it was hard to not have a lot of jump cuts between sound bites. We were also supposed to put voiceovers in, but I ran out of time so I wasn't able to have any.
Everytime we do these projects, I learn a little more about how important time management is and being able to work on something without procrastination getting in the way. I also learned a couple new things in premiere that had to do with layering clips and cutting just audio out of certain b-roll. The only thing I would do differently If I did thing again, would be getting voiceovers put in, since it really ties a story all together. I think I did a good job picking out sound bites and arranging the clips to tell a story. Overall, this project went okay for me. I could've been a lot more organized and managed my time better, but I hope to improve on that in the coming projects and be able to make a polished finished product.
Once it was all filmed, we were able to move onto editing. LyLena was a very animated speaker , and because of this we were able to get a lot of good footage, though this also made it more challenging since the interview was supposed to be around 1 minute and 30 seconds. Another issue, was that we had hardly any b-roll so it was hard to not have a lot of jump cuts between sound bites. We were also supposed to put voiceovers in, but I ran out of time so I wasn't able to have any.
Everytime we do these projects, I learn a little more about how important time management is and being able to work on something without procrastination getting in the way. I also learned a couple new things in premiere that had to do with layering clips and cutting just audio out of certain b-roll. The only thing I would do differently If I did thing again, would be getting voiceovers put in, since it really ties a story all together. I think I did a good job picking out sound bites and arranging the clips to tell a story. Overall, this project went okay for me. I could've been a lot more organized and managed my time better, but I hope to improve on that in the coming projects and be able to make a polished finished product.
